Hello friends. I know this is a long-shot, but here goes:
Every few days I find and delete a folder called tencent inside my Android's internal storage.
The folder contains a sub folder called beacon and inside it, a file called meta.dat whose contents are not human readable (is computer code).
The weird part (and I can't stress this enough) is that I have NO apps installed from the company tencent, so unless any of the apps I do have is playing dirty by having deals with that company and not informing its users, I have no idea why the folder keeps reappearing.
Is there any way in android to determine what app created a file or folder? Or can anybody shed some light on the matter?
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Hi! -- I observed the same thing on an OnePlus 5. I'm running latest Open Beta, not sure if it helps.
When I delete the folder, it may get recreated at a later time, and I can't figure out if it's recreated by an app I'm using or from something from the OS...
I have the same problem on a stock Galaxy S10 with no tencent apps installed. Any ideas yet?
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Hi guys, I would like to ask something regarding the application folders.
If I uninstall an app, what I do is I clear cache first then clear data then force close the app and then uninstall. Would that delete all the folder created by the app during its previous installation process?
I checked my internal phone storage today and i saw "Summer Player" folder and it has PNG files inside it. I could not find any apps that uses those PNG files.
I'm wondering if that's a folder that was previously created by one of the apps I installed and was not removed during uinstallation process?
I would like to have an organize folder in my system and removed any unused folder. Could i checked which application is using a specific folder?
Thanks and sorry for the long post.
i saw a summer player folder in my mobile too. maybe we can compare what games do we have in common and figure out where it came from? i tried googling and the results seems to point towards poweramp
I was cleaning up files on my Galaxy Note 4 (unrooted) and found a folder in the device storage
named
V3Go
with the structure given above, which seems to contain map tiles (but named xxxxxx.png.osn)
I cannot identify which application these belong to (possibly something I uninstalled long ago
which left lots of data used?
Anyone have an idea?
I would love to delete this data, but of course I don't want to damage any app that might be using it.
[Q] Does anybody know how to get rid of ".thumbnails" folder and free up some space?
Hi everyone!
My device's internal memory is almost full because of a folder called ".thumbnails". This folder has eaten up some 4.7 gb of the memory. I have tried to delete it but all that happens after I delete this folder is that it only disappears for a short period of time and until it reappears, the memory still remains consumed. I have tried a number of ways like creating dummy folders and files, i have also used an app called thumbnail files deleter and some cleansing apps but all in vain. I had the same problem in Lollipop and I had always hoped that Sony or Android would solve this problem in the coming updates but after several updates, still no way. Any and every help is highly appreciated. Thank you.
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Delete the folder and create a FILE with the same name.
Use ES file Explorer. Find the file and send it to your SD card or delete it.
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I am from Indonesia. One application from a locally popular market place called Tokopedia is able to create a file in /Music folder without files and media permission. The file name is au_uu_SzH34yR2.mp3. There are numerous postings in several discussion forum questioning the file. No one has any idea about the file. Some said that the Zomato app also created the file in the same folder. In SoundCloud there are many files with the same exact name.
I just found out that this Tokopedia app creates the file every time it runs although I only allow Phone permission. It can be found in my /Music folder in my two phones. One is Poco X3 NFC with Android 11 and another is Samsung A7 2018 with Android 10.
Anybody has any idea about the file? Is it possible for an application to create a file without the files and media permission? Or is it because the Phone permission?
Trashware apps are a dime a dozen.
If you have any doubts about it or don't like what's it doing, ditch it.
Keep shopping and social apps off the phone. If they need to run as an app on the device, you don't need them. Nothing but trouble.
Hello,
I have a Asus ROG Phone 3 and have a few questions.
Anytime I reboot my phone and go to check my internal storage, Android is automatically creating the following folders ASUS, Movies, Music, TwinApps, and Subtitles folder.
I assume this is just the default Behavior but does anyone know of a way to disable that or just to keep those folders deleted forever?
My phone is rooted, and I'm tech savvy as hell but I can't figure it out.
Anyone have a clue if the service/app that is remaking these folders is Android itself or somerhing from Asus?
I also recently switched to Android 12 and I noticed something strange, anytime I try to edit or access /sdcard/Android/OBB folder I can't edit anything in it, I can't copy or paste anything into that folder if I can even view it.
Mind you this is with root and using a file manager I've been using for years that I know works. Did something change in the background of A12?
Lastly does anyone know if there is a way to change the default save location for screenshots and/or DCIM camera folder?
Thanks
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1) most of the folders are created by android Media scanner but at least one is Asus specific. in theory any app can create own folders, if allowed in permissions.
2) you need file explorer that is updated to support scoped storage so it can view media files from other apps, for example SD Maid.
3) in camera app itself one can switch storage location to MicroSD card. not sure about screenshots, though.